What Is HatForm?
Design Exploration
Discover different shapes, hues, fabrics, and embellishments, and learn how to hone a signature style.
Hands-On Techniques
Gain skills that translate to actual headwear pieces, including material selection and building a hat from scratch.
Guided Instruction
Work through a series of tutorials that divide the hat-making process into digestible steps.
Learn, Experiment, and Build Your Own Style
Designed to Help You Create
For budding hat designers, HatForm provides a useful beginning to getting involved in the world of hatmaking. Rather than just presenting completed pieces as models to copy, our classes explore the choices made at every step of the process, so that learners can appreciate how various forms, fabrics and methods complement one another.
Learn the Craft of Headwear Design
HatForm is a website offering online classes in the making of hats and other headwear. Students learn basic concepts of hat design, such as shape, material, construction, ornamentation, and idea generation through a mix of instruction and practice. The site’s goal is to make the hatmaking process easy to understand and helpful for those just starting out or already working in fashion design.
Testimonials
What learners Say
“I found the course to be very approachable, and it was fun trying out various shapes and materials to see how they influenced the final result.”
Sora Fujimori
“I’ve had more confidence in my ability to translate ideas into actual hat forms, and I think it’s due to the way each lesson builds on the previous one so that I could repeat the exercises and work on developing my own style.”
